Contrary to fathers' rights propaganda, father perpetrators (along with stepdads and caretaker boyfrends) dominate the most vicious crimes against children: sexual assault, abusive head trauma, murder-suicides, crimes involving gun violence, and other similar forms of physically violent/fatal child abuse. And as more dads are providing child care (either because mom is working and can't find other care, or because dads are increasingly getting unsupervised visitation/custody through the family courts), more dads are are being found guilty of basic child abuse and neglect as well.

10/25/15 -Because of severe time constraints, we are no longer able to do regular updates at Dastardly Dads. We will occasionally post articles on general studies on child abuse/domestic violence, news pieces involving abusive fathers in custody/visitation situations. We wil also be updating the Killer Dads and Custody lists, while looking for a better, more accessible platform for the data.

7/11/16 - We started this blog on June 24, 2009--just over seven years. And like all good things, it's time to bring this project to a close. It has served its purpose. We have close to 10,500 postings regarding fathers and child abuse, with hundred of those cases being enabled by the family courts, social services, and others in authority. The documentation is clear. It is now time to stop documenting and put that energy into changing the situation that puts thousands of mothers and children at risk every day.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

It is reported that the child's mother "passed away a long time ago" and that the child lived with the grandmother. Gee, do we know for a fact that Mom died from natural causes? Too bad the grandmother let Daddy come anywhere near this little girl, since he admits that he strangled her to death. But boy, he didn't rape her. No sirree!I sure wouldn't take Daddy's word for it. This piece of sh** thinks that semen just sort of found its way to his daughter's genitals without him raping her?Dad is identified as SUNNYBOY PHAKIMPI MNISI.

National 13.5.2014 07.53 pm
Father admits to killing epileptic daughter, but denies raping her

Sunnyboy Phakimpi Mnisi, 32, from KaMhlushwa near Malalane, pleaded guilty to murder and pleaded not guilty to two charges of rape, a Sapa correspondent reported.

He voluntarily admitted that he unlawfully caused the death of his daughter, Ayanda Nokuvela Mnisi, 7, by strangling her after she started having seizures.

He admitted to forcefully hitting Ayanda’s head against the floor on August 16, 2012, and running away after he realised that she was dead.

Mnisi testified that he then called his mother and informed her that he had killed his own daughter.

When State prosecutor George Baloyi asked the court to keep the accused in police custody as he had pleaded guilty to the murder charge, Mnisi refused to be detained.

“No, no, no! This will not happen. I am not going inside there. You asked me to plead, and now you want to lock me up. Call my mother first or this is not going to happen,” Mnisi said to the court orderly.

He tried fighting two policemen who were ordered to take him to his cell, but they overpowered him.

His mother was called and she went to comfort him as he was escorted to police cells.

Before the case was adjourned, Mnisi’s sister, Norma Prudence Mnisi, testified that she received a call from their mother informing her that Mnisi had killed Ayanda.

“As I was a member of the Community Policing Forum (CPF), we went to his house to investigate and found the doors wide open. After entering, we found the child lying on the floor inside his bedroom. She was already dead,” she said.

Norma said the naked child’s face was covered with a T-shirt and her private parts with her school dress.

“I walked out of the house and contacted my sector manager and the police. The child’s mother passed away a long time ago and the girl lived with our mother.

“The accused arrived home the next day crying, after his brother fetched him from the veld where he was hiding. He apologised to the family, saying he had done something wrong by killing the child. He was shaking and did not say much,” Norma testified.

Dr Jan Marais, who conducted the post-mortem on the child, testified that she suffered an injury to the back of the head and died as a result of strangulation.

He added that there was semen on both her private parts, indicating she had been raped.

Marais said as he had performed the post-mortem six days after the girl’s death, he could not establish whether the rapes happened before or after her death.

Judge Ebenhaezer Jordaan said the court needed to call a pathologist to establish whether the rapes happened before or during or after the victim was murdered.